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A 2-year-old from South Seattle, Washington has died after he fell four stories out his apartment window.

The child, whose name was not released, fell from a seventh-floor apartment onto a third-story concrete courtyard at the Dakota at Rainier Court apartment building at 3642 33rd Ave. S., Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said.

Firefighters and police responded about 6:30 p.m., and the boy was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries. He was pronounced dead shortly after, Kappel said.

Well, at least it’s a step up from leaving the kid at Wal-Mart.

Pierce County Sheriff’s detectives are asking for help to find the parents of a toddler who was abandoned with significant signs of torture and abuse.

The boy, whose name is believed to be Javay, is approximately 22 months old. He is in serious condition and has been taken into protective custody.

He was dropped off Sunday morning at a Tacoma hospital by a woman - Trenicia Holmes - who said a woman came by and asked her to watch the baby.

A judge is cracking down on Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services, giving them one month to comply with a class action lawsuit settlement from 4 years ago.

Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Charles R. Snyder said the state has made plenty of promises to closely monitor the health and well-being of children in its care, but has failed to keep those promises.

“I’m not asking,” he said. “I’m ordering.”

The ruling, unexpected after Monday’s lengthy hearing, requires the state to find ways to make monthly visits to foster children, to get them prompt health screenings, to ensure that they see their siblings regularly and to keep caseloads at a level where this is possible.

OK, this is just some depraved shit. Police found a woman in Kennewick, Washington whose feet and hands had been bound with yarn, she was fatally stabbed multiple times in the chest, and her almost full-term baby was cut out of her.

A 23-year-old Kennewick woman, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, has been arrested for investigation of first-degree murder and is accused of trying to pass the infant boy off as her own in calls made late Friday night to emergency dispatchers. She was being held without bail Monday, with another court appearance scheduled Wednesday.

Court documents say blue mechanic’s gloves soaked in blood, a box cutter, bloody paper towels, yarn, a mucus bulb, baby bottle and baby socks were among some of the items found in Sisouvanh Synhavong’s purse.

They didn’t say whether the boxcutter was used to cut or stab Gomez and police refused to discuss details Monday.

A boating accident in Washington has resulted in a 5-year-old drowning, a 9-year-old and an adult missing, and the operator of the boat being brought up on murder charges.

A Thurston County sheriff’s officer says a 5-year-old boy is dead after a 16-foot, flat-bottomed boat carrying three adults and two children overturned in the Nisqually River, east of Lacey in Thurston County.

Still missing in the river late tonight are a 9-year-old boy and a man. A woman and another man, who was operating the craft, reached shore safely after the boat overturned shortly after 6 p.m.

The 42-year-old boat operator, from Olympia, was arrested for homicide by watercraft, Mealy said. He was to be held overnight in Thurston County Jail and make a court appearance on Friday, the lieutenant said

Looks like someone at Family and Protective Services dropped the ball. A 21-month-old was found dead from a broken skull, and now his parents are being charged with his murder — the same parents whom had the boy removed from the home, and just had him recently returned by the child welfare agency.

A spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services said the agency is examining the case to see “if there is something we could have done differently” in making the determination to return the boy to his parents’ custody.

Officers arrested Sergio Barcenas Jr., 22, and Elizabeth Arellano, 21, on Sunday night in Georgetown.

Christopher was taken to Georgetown Hospital on May 29 after his mother said she found him breathless and choking on a chicken nugget, according to a petition filed in Williamson County criminal court by Grant Holland, a state protective services investigator.

The boy was airlifted to Dell Children’s, where doctors discovered a large fracture on the back of his head, along with swelling and retinal bleeding

A 2-year-old who wandered away from his family during a picnic at their church was found later floating in a nearby pool.

According to the Coroner’s Office, the toddler was attending a picnic at the First Christian Church in Perry Township with his family when he wandered off.

The toddler was then found unresponsive in a pool about 100 yards away.

Southwest Ambulance responded to the scene and preformed CPR.

The baby boy was then transported to Monongahela Valley Hospital were he was pronounced dead.

A 3-year-old boy from Tacoma, Washington died after he injured himself at his apartment complex’s playground.

The mother drove the boy to St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood.

Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum says the mother and her boyfriend say the child was injured Wednesday evening while playing.

Police have been interviewing the two and trying to determine exactly what happened.

Perhaps the more amazing part, he’s done it before. And how did he get to the airport?

A 10-year-old boy apprehended last year after a flying to Texas as a stowaway was caught Tuesday trying to board another flight out of Sea-Tac Airport.

Semaj Booker was a short stroll away from a departing Southwest Airlines flight when, just after 6:30 a.m., a gate agent stopped the boy. Airport authorities returned the boy to his mother’s home in Tacoma, from where he’d been reported missing.

Transportation Security Administration officials are looking into how Semaj made it through a TSA checkpoint without a boarding pass just before 5 a.m., agency spokesman Dwayne Baird said.

In a case that was first chalked up to a gun accident, a 13 year old boy is now being accused of intentionally shooting his older brother.

The charge marks a major shift in investigators’ understanding of the incident. Police said in March that a preliminary investigation indicated that the child had found the gun — it belonged to his father, a security guard– and discharged it, striking his 15-year-old brother, “while playing with it.”

Law enforcement officials declined to say yesterday why they now think the child acted deliberately. State’s Attorney Glenn F. Ivey said he has never considered the shooting an accident.

Finally some good news to report around here. Two sisters who were separated from their father while hiking in the Yacolt Burn State Forest outside of Portland, Oregon, have been found after spending more than 15 hours out in the wild.

Rescuers used heat-seeking technology to search for the Vancouver, Wash., family late Sunday. They found the father and his son overnight, but the daughters — ages 7 and 10 — were missing until 10:30 a.m. Monday.

The girls were found by ground searchers with Fire District 13, also known as the Volcano Rescue Team.

The search began Sunday night when the father called 911 to report his daughters were missing. Officials said the father and son sat down to rest during their hike, but the girls carried on and disappeared.

A 21-month-old has drowned and two men are missing in Lewis County, Washington, where the Green and Cedar rivers are swelling.

Nine other people were rescued Saturday after river accidents in King County — and police say some are lucky to be alive.

Sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said a 45-year-old Seattle man was with three others Saturday when he went underwater in his kayak and failed to reappear on the surface downstream from Kanasket Palmer State Park.

Because of the steep cliffs on both sides of the river, the group could not reach a place where they could get out and call authorities for more than an hour. The search was suspended Sunday evening until the Green River water level decreased.

We don’t care if it was the most expensive makeup from Paris, toddlers routinely break stuff and it’s no reason to put the smackdown on them.

A Pasco woman who hit her 2-year-old son for getting into her makeup has been jailed for investigation of assault.

The 19-year-old appeared in court Monday and bail was set at $25,000 while prosecutors decide whether to charge her.

Police who were called Friday by the boy’s grandmother found scrapes and bruises on his face and bumps on his head.

We’ve grown rather resentful of the whole “teaching towards the test” mentality ourselves in recent years, so we certainly understand a Seattle teacher’s frustration when he refused to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) to his students, and he made an admirable stand. But unfortunately, rules are rules and now he’s suffering the consequences.

[Science teacher Carl Chew] said he spent some of the first few days of WASL testing working at district’s Science Materials Center, preparing student science kits.

He then was suspended without pay from today through May 2.

“He failed to follow his duties as teacher,” said Seattle Public Schools Spokeswoman Patti Spencer.

The district, she said, expects its teachers to fulfill all their responsibilities, which include giving state-mandated exams such as the WASL.

The district, she added, understands that there are debates over standardized tests such as the WASL, but sees value in the WASL as one way to reflect on what students are learning, and how instruction might need to change for an individual, a school or the district as a whole.

And here we thought butter knives weren’t dangerous. Apparently they are, if you throw them hard enough.

Tyler Hemmert said he and a friend were sitting on a park bench when another boy became angry with them and threw a knife at them.

The butter knife became lodged in Tyler’s head between his scalp and skull. “It, like, stung like a bee for a while,” Tyler said.

Tyler said he could still feel the knife. “I could see the handle of the butter knife, sticking out,” he said. “That’s when I freaked out.”